Historical information:Sheldon Klein (1935-2005) born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles. He earned a B.A. in anthropology (1956) and a Ph.D. in linguistics (1963) at the University of California, Berkeley. Klein conducted field research on Kawaiisu in Kelso, California in the summer of 1958, data that led to the publication of a comparative study of Kawaiisu and Monachi (1959). Klein's research interests then shifted to the field computational linguistics, and his Ph.D. dissertation focused on the theory of machine translation. After leaving Berkeley, Klein spent two years as an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He subsequently joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1966, where he spent the remainder of his academic career. At the urging of scholars in the field of Uto-Aztecan linguistics, Klein returned to his research on Kawaiisu in the early 1980s, working with some of the remaining speakers of the language in Tehachapi, California in 1981-1983.
Scope and content:The Papers document Sheldon Klein's field research on Kawaiisu in 1958 and the early 1980s. Included in the collection are original field notebooks from his research in Kelso, California with Fred and Rosie Collins in the summer of 1958. Also included are notes based on his work in Bakersfield and Tehachapi, California in the early 1980s. This later material was provided by several Kawaiisu speakers, including Carmen Peebles, Lida Girado, Ann Peltier, Rose Barneche, Andy Greene, Della Greene, and Harry Williams. The collection also includes a set of file slips with Kawaiisu vocabulary and grammatical elements and preparatory materials for Klein's published articles on Kawaiisu. Many of Klein's research trips and interactions with Kawaiisu speakers were done together with his wife Carol Klein, who has also played a major role in assembling the material in this collection.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Fred Collins, Rose Collins, and Sheldon Klein. Sheldon and Carol Klein Papers on the Kawaiisu Language, Klein, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TB14VP.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 65).
Historical information:Sydney M. Lamb is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University (1951) and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley (1957). His doctoral dissertation was a grammar of the Mono language based on fieldwork conducted around North Fork, California in the summers of 1953 and 1954. He was a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1958-1964 and Yale University from 1968-1977. He left academia to work in the computer industry from 1977-1981, but subsequently joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University, where he has spent the remainder of his academic career.
Scope and content:The Papers document Lamb's research on Indian languages of California and surrounding areas from 1953-1955. One microfilm reel in the collection also includes copies of Victor Golla's notebooks from his fieldwork on Hupa at Hoopa Valley in the summer of 1963; for more details, see details under the Victor Golla Papers on the Hupa Language.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Lucy Kinsman and Sydney M. Lamb. Sydney M. Lamb Papers on California Indian Languages, Lamb, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2JW8BTD.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 31, LA 60, LA 80, LA 235, LA 236).
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories; untitled texts (some in Shoshoni). Translation to or from English.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Carmen Peebles and Sheldon Klein. The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings, LA 65, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BZ64BQ.
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Item number: LA65.019
Date: 26 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.039 references this Item
Preferred citation: Dictated narrative, LA 65.019, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17979.
Item number: LA65.018
Date: 26 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.121 references this Item
Preferred citation: Dictated narrative, LA 65.018, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17978.
Item number: LA65.023
Date: 07 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.047 references this Item
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous phrases, LA 65.023, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17983.
Item number: LA65.033
Date: 26 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.038 references this Item
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous phrases. Includes 'My brothers said they don't know.', LA 65.033, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17993.
Item number: LA65.025
Date: 13 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.048 references this Item
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous wordlist, LA 65.025, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17985.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous wordlist, LA 65.029, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17989.
Item number: LA65.024
Date: 07 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.048 references this Item
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous wordlist, LA 65.024, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17984.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous wordlist, LA 65.027, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17987.
Item number: LA65.026
Date: 13 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.048 references this Item
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous wordlist, LA 65.026, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17986.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous wordlist. Includes 'acorn', 'getting dark', 'twenty'., LA 65.006, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17966.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous wordlist. Includes minimal pairs., LA 65.028, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17988.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous words and phrases, LA 65.031, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17991.
Item number: LA65.021
Date: 26 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.048 references this Item
Preferred citation: Elicitation of phrases, LA 65.021, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17981.
Item number: LA65.020
Date: 26 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.048 references this Item
Preferred citation: Elicitation of sentences, LA 65.020, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17980.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of wordlist. Identified as "glotto cron list". Includes modifiers., LA 65.030, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17990.
Item number: LA65.007
Date: 11 Jul 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.047 references this Item
Preferred citation: Monologue about tobacco healing, LA 65.007, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17967.
Item number: LA65.011
Date: 17 Jul 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.047 references this Item
Preferred citation: Untitled monologue, LA 65.011, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17971.
Item number: LA65.009
Date: 11 Jul 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.047 references this Item
Preferred citation: Untitled monologue, LA 65.009, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17969.
Item number: LA65.022
Date: 26 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.046 references this Item; LA 65.048 references this Item
Preferred citation: Untitled monologue, LA 65.022, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17982.
Item number: LA65.016
Date: 26 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.121 references this Item
Preferred citation: Untitled monologue from consultant's past, LA 65.016, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17976.
Preferred citation: Untitled monologue. Possibly recipe., LA 65.005, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17965.
Item number: LA65.014
Date: 13 Jul 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.038 references this Item; LA 65.039 references this Item; LA 65.086 references this Item
Preferred citation: Untitled monologues, LA 65.014, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17974.
Item number: LA65.015
Date: 26 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.038 references this Item; LA 65.039 references this Item; LA 65.100 references this Item; LA 65.121 references this Item
Catalog history:Digital asset LA65.015.001.wav was formerly segment number 023_1. Digital asset LA65.015.002.wav was formerly segment number 029_1. Digital asset LA65.015.003.wav was formerly segment number 031_1.
Preferred citation: Untitled monologues, LA 65.015, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17975.
Item number: LA65.002
Date: 18 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.035 references this Item; LA 65.046 references this Item
Catalog history:Digital asset LA65.002.001.wav was formerly segment number 002_1. Digital asset LA65.002.002.wav was formerly segment number 003_1. Digital asset LA65.002.003.wav was formerly segment number 005_1.
Preferred citation: Untitled monologues, LA 65.002, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17962.
Item number: LA65.001
Date: 18 Aug 1958
Relations to this item:LA 65.046 references this Item
Preferred citation: Untitled monologues, LA 65.001, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17961.
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